The Best Classical Music in the World

Featuring some of the world's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or amore experienced player looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The TopTen Most Calming Pieces To Play On Piano contains ten of the world's most relaxing Piano pieces composed by some of the best-known composers of the last two hundred years including Frédéric Chopin Jules Massenet Philip Glass and Yiruma. We've roamed freely across the past two centuries of music to create this tranquil Pianoselection for you. There's a piece each by Chopin and Liszt two major stars of the early Romantic era; a couple of jewels from the Parisian belle epoque by Satie and Massenet; unforgettable melodies from the pens of Dvorak andRachmaninoff; while closer to our own time there's beautiful music by Philip Glass Neil Cowley and Ludovico Einaudi. Let life's stresses melt away as you take a deep breath and lose yourself in these precious musicalmoments...

for Intermediate Piano. BACH: Air on the G String - Badinerie, BWV 1067 - Allegro, BWV 1048 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Sheep May Safely Graze - Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 · BEETHOVEN: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) - Theme from Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) - Theme from Symphony No. 5 - Theme from Symphony No. 7 - Theme from Symphony No. 9 · BIZET: Habanera from Carmen · BOCCHERINI: Minuet from String Quintet, Op. 11, No. 5 · BORODIN: Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 · BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1, No. 5 - Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4 · CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary · DVORÁK: Theme from Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) · ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations - Pomp and Circumstance · FAURÉ: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 - Pavane, Op. 50 · FRANCK: Panis angelicus · GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice · GOUNOD: Ave Maria adapted from Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by JS Bach · GREIG: Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2 · HANDEL: Air from Water Music, HWV 348 - Allegro from Water Music, HWV 349 - Allegro from Water Music, HWV 348 - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon - Bourrée from Flute Sonata, HWV 363b - Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - Largo from Serses · HAYDN: Theme from String Quartet, Op. 3, No. 5 - Theme from Symphony No. 94, Hob I:94 (Surprise) · LEHAR: Waltz from The Merry Widow · MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs · MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream · MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus - Theme from Clarinet Concerto - Theme from Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Lacrimosa from Requiem - Theme from Piano Concerto No. 21 - Theme from Symphony No. 40 - Theme from Symphony No. 41 · Offenbach: Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann - Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld · PACHELBEL: Canon in D · PARRY: Jerusalem · PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz from La bohème - Un bel dì vedremo from Madame Butterfly - Vissi d'arte from Tosca · RACHMANINOFF: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 2 · RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumblebee - Song of India - The Young Prince and the Young Prince from Scheherazade · SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals · SCHUBERT: Ave Maria - Serenade · SOUSA: The Stars and Stripes

The Best of... All the Best Songs arranged for guitar tab. Complete with full lyrics.-Since the early 1980s Mark Knopfler has been regarded as a true guitar hero. With a style and sound that is entirely his own and instantly recognisable he gave the rock guitar a new vocabulary combining the character of theBlues with the techniques of country-pickers such as his own hero Chet Aitkins. The winning combination of '80s innovations and classic guitar work took Dire Straits to the very top of the charts time and again with poignantballads like Brothers In Arms and Private Investigations sitting alongside upbeat favourites Money For Nothing and Walk Of Life. Knopfler's solo albums have continued his rising success andreputation giving the guitarist the opportunity to explore his songwriting and playing outside the confines of a successful major band. This commemorative songbook features the best of both worlds with twenty-two songs allcarefully transcribed in accurate guitar Tablature.

The Top Ten Film Themes To Play On Piano is part of a series that has been specially designed to help pianists of all levels to find the repertoire they really want to play. Featuring some of theworld's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or a more experienced playerlooking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The pieces in this book will transportyou to a variety of exhilarating eras and locations. In no particular order they include a gladiatorial arena in Ancient Rome Juliet's balcony as she calls out for Romeo bombed-out Warsaw in the dark days of the Second WorldWar the gritty world of Scandi-noir and a secluded Pacific island where a team of scientists just happen to be breeding dinosaurs...So make sure your vaccinations are up to date and enjoy the ride! This collectionfeatures Monty Norman's James Bond Theme The King's Speech by Alexandre Desplat Henry Mancini's Pink Panther Theme Michael Nyman's The Heart Asks Pleasure First from The Piano andmore.   

Throughout his career Christopher Parkening America's preeminent classical guitarist has had the opportunity to perform with many of the world's leading artists and orchestras. This folio Duets and Concertos contains many selections from those collaborations and features a wide range of musical pairings which show the guitar at its versatile best: voice and guitar guitar duets chamber music and concertos. All of the pieces included here have been edited and fingered for the guitar by Christopher Parkening and to quote Christopher himself ???No compromise has been made in requirement of technique. All of these pieces are suitable for performance by the virtuosoguitarist.??? This folio contains 35 transcriptions.

A compendium of the world's best loved guitar classics - a history of music for the classical guitar with works from the 14th Century to the present.

The Top Ten Christmas Songs To Play On Piano is part of a series that has been specially designed to help pianists of all levels to find the repertoire they really want to play. Featuring some ofthe world's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or a more experiencedplayer looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The Top Ten ChristmasSongs To Play On Piano is a little bundle of festive fun. Covering everything from jazzy old-school classics like ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Winter Wonderland’ to party favouriteslike ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ and ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ this Scrooge-defying collection is all you need to spread some Christmas cheer!

The Top Ten Most Beautiful Pieces To Play On Piano is part of a series that has been specially designed to help pianists of all levels to find the repertoire they really want to play. Featuring some ofthe world's greatest pieces of music from a variety of different genres the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or a more experiencedplayer looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight. The Top Ten MostBeautiful Pieces To Play On Piano brings you the most stunning musical outpourings offered by composers over the last 300 years. Lose yourself in heart-rending melodies by Beethoven Elgar and Debussy. Thiscollection contains Barber's Adagio For Strings Handel's Lascia Ch'io Pianga from Rinaldo HWV 7 Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight/Written On The Sky Einaudi's Nuvole Bianche and more.

66 of the best ever tunes and themes are compiled into one convenient collection for your playing pleasure! This popular title has been updated to a third edition to include a collection of classic and contemporary favorites in pop, classical, Broadway, Hollywood, folk, and the Great American Songbook. Titles include: All I Ask of You · All the Things You Are · Autumn Leaves · Blackbird · Body and Soul · Canon in D · City of Stars · Clocks · Downton Abbey (Theme) · Edelweiss · The Entertainer · Fur Elise, WoO 59 · Hallelujah · Imagine · Linus and Lucy · Memory · Moon River · Over the Rainbow · Pure Imagination · Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head · Sunrise, Sunset · You Raise Me Up · You've Got a Friend · and more.

Whether it's classical or jazz this Doblinger series combines the best of both worlds. Each album contains both the original (or a simplified arrangement) and a corresponding jazz version along with a free enclosed CD that in addition also contains the recordings of Jazz On Mozart and Jazz On Tchaikovsky. 6 Beethoven Classics for piano and 6 Jazz piano interpretations.

Pop Special String-The music of Disney is timeless and continues to delight audiences year after year. This entertaining medley by Charles Sayre features four of Disney's best-loved hits including: Chim Chim Cher-ee A Dream Is a Wish Your HeartMakes It's a Small World and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Arranged for string ensemble.

Accent on Achievement is a revolutionary, best-selling band method that will excite and stimulate your students through full-color pages and the most complete collection of classics and world music in any band method. The comprehensive review cycle in books 1 & 2 will ensure that students remember what they learn and progress quickly. Also included are rhythm and rest exercises, chorales, scale exercises, and 11 full band arrangements among the first two books. Book 3 includes progressive technical, rhythmic studies and chorales in all 12 major and minor keys. Also included are lip slur exercises for increasing brass instrument range and flexibility. Accent on Achievement meets and exceeds the USA National Standards for music education, grades five through eight.